Canada geese swim amid algae scum along a stretch of the Regent's Canal in London, England.
British canals and lakes have been blighted this summer by green porridge-like toxic scum that has been caused by an unusually high number of algae blooms. A combination of the mild weather and high levels of phosphate nutrients from agriculture and homes are to blame, says the Environment Agency

A goose feeds on the bank of a dried-up creek bed near Lake Arlington in Texas. The drought that has turned Texas and parts of the plains into a parched moonscape of cracked earth could persist into next year, prolonging the misery of farmers and ranchers who have endured a dry spell now expected to be the state’s worst since the 1950s, the
US Climate Prediction Center said this week

A box jellyfish at the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town. Box jellies, also called sea wasps and marine stingers, live primarily in coastal waters off northern Australia and throughout the Indo-Pacific. Their venom is considered to be among the most deadly in the world, containing toxins that attack the heart, nervous system, and skin cells